TU Wien becomes a member of EURECOM

TU Wien gains "Off-Shore-Campus" in the Sophia Antipolis Science Park ("Telecom Valley") at the French Riviera. As of 1 January 2020, TU Wien will initially become a member of EURECOM, a French consortium with the legal status of an EIG (Economic Interest Group) consisting of universities and industrial members, for a period of 4 years. EURECOM is a "Grande-Ecole" (French engineering school) and "Graduate School and Research Center in Digital Sciences" and is a founding member of SophiaTech Campus in Sophia Antipolis, the largest Science and Technology Information campus in the Alpes Maritimes. With its membership, the TU Wien will also receive spatial infrastructure on the campus. Joint Governance " in research and teaching. What is special about this cooperation model is the "joint governance" of all members and the direct interaction between excellent universities and industry. The objectives and orientation both in research as well as in teaching and in the master and doctoral programmes are jointly defined and developed.